
Still Born
4.390 kr.Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel, explores one of life’s most consequential decisions – whether or not to have children – with her signature charm and intelligence. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When complications arise in Alina’s pregnancy and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions. In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Still Born explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.

Vaxtarræktarkonan einmana
4.390 kr.Frumlegar smásögur úr japönskum samtíma sem fjalla um tengsl og samskipti á óvæntan hátt. Sögupersónurnar takast á við hið gróteska, framandi og ævintýralega í hversdeginum og frelsast úr viðjum vanans.
Yukiko Motoya (f. 1979) er ein ferskasta rödd japanskra samtímabókmennta. Hún skrifar skáldverk og leikrit og stýrir eigin leikfélagi, auk þess sem gerðar hafa verið kvikmyndir eftir verkum hennar. Motoya hefur unnið til virtra bókmennta- og leiklistarverðlauna í heimalandi sínu.

The City and The House
3.690 kr.Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must say goodbye to his cousin Roberta; to his former lover Lucrezia and her husband Piero; and to all his friends who used to gather for weekends at Le Margherite, Lucrezia’s splendid house in the country. But even before Giuseppe’s departure, friendships have begun to fracture as frustrated yearnings and past infidelities strain the bonds.
The sale of Le Margherite marks the end of an era and its old inhabitants and visitors are left to pursue happiness on their own. Their stories unfold through an exchange of letters that reveal with great poignancy the thoughts, passions and desires of the protagonists.

Valentino
3.490 kr.So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to choke me.
Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents who have no doubt he will be ‘a man of consequence’. His sisters, however, see him for what he truly is: lazy, apathetic, self-absorbed and far more interested in partying than applying himself to his studies at medical school.
His parents’ dreams begin to unravel when, out of the blue, Valentino becomes engaged to the wealthy yet strikingly ugly Maddalena. The family is scandalised by his choice of bride – and suspicious of his motives.
In Valentino, class, social expectations, wealth and marriage come under Natalia Ginzburg’s forensic scrutiny, her unflinching moral realism and her keen psychological insight resulting in a work of quiet devastation.

Flóra
5.990 kr.Flóra geymir myndir af flestöllum tegundum íslenskra blómplantna og byrkninga, alls um 460. Hér er megináherslan á að sýna plönturnar sjálfar, fegurð þeirra og sérkenni, fremur en vistfræði, útbreiðslu og flokkunarfræði – því hlutverki gegna fjölmörg önnur verk. Langflestar myndanna eru gerðar eftir lifandi eintökum en annars byggt á bestu heimildum sem völ er á til að gefa sem sannferðugasta mynd af hverri tegund auk þess sem ýmis einkenni eru dregin fram.
Myndir listamannsins Jóns Baldurs Hlíðberg af íslenskri náttúru, dýrum og foldarskarti, eru löngu kunnar hér á landi auk þess að hafa birst víða erlendis og hlotið þar margháttaða viðurkenningu.
Fátt jafnast á við að njóta skrúðs og fjölbreytileika blómanna í náttúrunni sjálfri en þegar því verður ekki við komið er gott að geta notið þeirra í myndasafni eins og því sem hér birtist.


In the Garden: Essay on Nature and Growing
3.490 kr.Outdoor space is something everyone should have access to. But you don’t need a garden to become a gardener.
Growing plants and vegetables forces us to pause, pay attention and look more closely. From the vantage point of even the smallest windowsill garden we can observe the passing of time through the shifting of the seasons, as well as the environmental changes the planet is undergoing.
In this collection of essays, fourteen writers go beyond simply considering a plot of soil to explore how gardening is a shared language, an opportunity for connection, something that is always evolving. Penelope Lively trains her gardening eye on her gardens past and present; Paul Mendez reflects on the image of the paradisal garden; Jon Day asks whether an urban community garden can be a radical place; and Victoria Adukwei Bulley considers the power of herbs and why there is no such thing as a weed.
A collection about gardening unlike any other, In the Garden brings together fourteen brilliant writers to interrogate what is most important and pressing about growing today.

Creation Lake
3.490 kr.This summer, meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover – the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller.

The Mark
3.490 kr.The Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment: a way of measuring a person’s empathy and identifying the potential for anti-social behaviour.
In a few days’ time, Iceland will vote on whether to make the test compulsory for every citizen. The nation is bitterly divided. Some believe the test makes society safer; others decry it as a violation.
As the referendum draws closer, four people – Vetur, Eyja, Tristan and Ólafur – find themselves caught in the teeth of the debate. Each of them will have to reckon with uncomfortable questions: Where do the rights of society end and the rights of the individual begin? When does utopia become dystopia?No matter which side wins, they will all have to find a way to live with the result.

The End Of Eddy
3.490 kr.Édouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the author’s own.
Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we create our own freedom?

Jarðtengd norðurljós
4.590 kr.Jarðtengd norðurljós inniheldur áður óbirt ljóð af ýmsu tagi, óbundin, háttbundin og yrkisefnin fjölbreytileg.

Eldri konur
4.590 kr.Ég hef alltaf verið rótlaus og vannærð. Þegar ég kynntist áfengi fannst mér eins og ég væri gróðursett í sólríkan lund. Tilveran fékk á sig fagurgulan blæ eins og horft væri gegnum litað gler. Allt varð bærilegra. Fljótlega fór ég þó út í harðara efni.
Efnið mitt gerir mig heila, fyllir mig krafti, lífi, fær mig til að engjast um af fráhvörfum og þráhyggju, lemja, slá, fær mig umsvifalaust til að steypa mér í glötun.
Efnið mitt er eldri konur.
Ung kona gefur rapport af þráhyggju sinni fyrir eldri konum og rekur líf sitt frá barnæsku til fullorðinsára gegnum frásagnir af konum sem hafa heltekið hana.
Eldri konur er röntgenmynd af ástandi. Við kynnumst konunni með ólíkum brotum af sögu hennar, uppvexti í flóknum heimilisaðstæðum, mismunandi vinnustöðum, vináttu, ástum, sigrum og ósigrum.

Himintungl yfir heimsins ystu brún (kilja)
4.590 kr.Hvort er mikilvægara, að segja sannleikann eða vernda þá sem maður elskar? Árið er 1615, og veröldin er gengin úr lagi, því jörðin er ekki lengur miðdepill alheimsins. Presturinn Pétur á Meyjarhóli skrifar bréf – eða skýrslu, jafnvel ákæruskjal – til að henda reiður á atburðum sem hafa skekið sveitina á Brúnasandi og kippt stoðum undan tilveru hans og ástvina hans.
Himintungl yfir heimsins ystu brún er saga sem talar til samtímans aftan úr öldum, um ástina, mennskuna og ábyrgðina sem við berum hvert á öðru. Hún dregur upp ljóslifandi mynd af opinni, forvitinni og ástríðufullri öld, þar sem ný vísindi takast á við trúna, og penninn er beittari en sverðið.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson er fæddur árið 1963. Himintungl yfir heimsins ystu brún er hans fimmtánda skáldsaga. Fjarvera þín er myrkur (2020) hlaut virt frönsk verðlaun LePoint og France Inter sem besta þýdda skáldsagan vorið 2022. Jón Kalman hlaut Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin árið 2005 fyrir Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin.
Bækur hans hafa verið þýddar á yfir 30 tungumál.

Touch
3.490 kr.When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue—a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he’d known in the sixties when they were students in London—both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends his world, Kristofer finds himself pulled toward an answer to the mystery of Miko’s sudden departure decades before, compelling him to travel to London and Japan as the virus threatens to shut everything down.
A heart-wrenching love story and an absorbing mystery, Touch delves into the secrets of the past to explore the hidden lives that we all possess, the pain and beauty of our past loves and friendships that continue to leave their mark on us. Searching and lyrically rendered by acclaimed author Olaf Olafsson, Touch is a stunning tribute to the weight of history and the complexities of the human heart.

Eat Frozen Shit!
3.890 kr.Look no further! The book you’re currently holding is the only Icelandic phrasebook you’ll ever actually need. Eat Frozen Shit is not just a handy guide to “colorful language”, it is so much more!
Included in this book:
* A practical no-bullshit guide to everyday words and phrases!
* Filthy curse words!
* Funny sex phrases!
* Essential party vernacular!
* Cool slang!
* Uncool grandparents’ slang!
* Hilarious illustrations!
* A bunch of useless information!
* And more!Impress your friends and family by learning to curse in one of the oldest languages in the world. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.





